World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Food Security
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Reason to cheer
Meet two pioneering grassroots leaders nominated for the Equator Initiative Awards
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Put on hold
GM mustard launch deferred
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Stale concept
Proposed grain bank scheme not any different from the pilot project
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Impoverishment risks and reconstruction: a model for population displacement and resettlement
During the last two decades of the previous century, the magnitude of forced population displacements caused by development programs was on the order of 10 million people each year, or some 200 million people globally during that period. Thus, by their frequency, size, ad the dire consequences, development-cased displacements have become a problem of worldwide proportions.
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Pest peril
A threat to food security looms large over east and central Africa. The insect which causes the cassava mosaic disease is rapidly spreading around the western side of Lake Victoria in Tanzania and
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Back to basics
Traditional farming was the buzzword at a meeting titled
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Healing Afghanistan
The <i>karez</i> system could solve the country's water problems
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The new deal
Expert panel moots course correction without hurting the farmer
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Salvage operation
Government mulls options as drought takes its toll on seasonal crops
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Piecemeal proposals
The recommended grain policy may help tackle the problem of plenty, but food insecurity will remain <br> <font size="1" color="blue"> Read full article </font>